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Robredo calls for unity amid pandemic, threat to democracy
Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday called for unity similar to what Filipinos displayed during the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution to fight the "constant threat" to the country's democracy and also amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement commemorating the anniversary of the historic uprising, Robredo acknowledged that the promise of EDSA has yet to be fulfilled completely, as she took note of "efforts to revise history for the personal agenda of a powerful few."
She then urged Filipinos to finish the work that started during EDSA People Power.
"The challenge now is this: We must find within ourselves that strength, that faith, that fire to continue the work that remains to be done," she said, adding in doing this Filipinos "must find a way to walk forward together."
Robredo also said it is through unity that Filipinos can weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Robredo also stressed that a united people "can never be defeated."
"Today, we are reminded of what we can do, marching towards a shared horizon, bound not only by the crisis we face, but by our collective resolve to truly achieve the promise articulated 35 years ago — isang lipunang mas malaya, mas makatarungan, at mas makatao," she said.
The EDSA People Power Revolution ended the decades-old reign of then-President Ferdinand Marcos and installed Corazon Aquino to power.
Years later, Marcos' son, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., would contest his defeat to Robredo in the 2016 vice presidential race. The Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal, junked Marcos' poll protest on February 16 after years of litigation. —KBK, GMA News